Digital Vouchers

Coupon distribution using paper vouchers faces challenges that include fraud and theft. Specifically, vouchers can be lost or damaged and fraud is common because vouchers are relatively easy to duplicate and circulate. This ultimately leads to stock disparities, beneficiary inequalities and tracking mistakes.

Using a device connected to an NFC card allows better traceability and reduces these risks. Additionally, having a bigger acceptance network ensures a higher card adoption rate. We’ve been working with NGOs to apply this principle to the food distribution and humanitarian aid sectors.

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A couponing expertise directed at solving NGOs challenges

Famoco and the World Food Programme are leading with new digital mobile solutions to Fight Hunger (SDG2). The solution digitalizes social protection programmes in food-insecure communities. It uses mobile NFC technology to enhance the people’s livelihood, making sure the most vulnerable communities don’t fall through the social safety net.
By reducing information silos and paperwork, yearly monitoring costs have dropped by 74%. This means resources can be used to increase the number of people covered by the programme by 17%, raise awareness and reduce levels of malnutrition amongst vulnerable communities.

Revolutionizing how we track
the impact of food assistance

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This use case was selected in the Outstanding Mobile Contribution to the UN SDGs category for the Mobile World Congress 2018 Awards.